Next step for Ladies Mile
Public consultation has closed on two major plans which could change the face of housing in Queenstown.
Submissions closed late last week on Queenstown Lakes District Council's bid to rezone Ladies Mile from rural land to urban and also on the council's Joint Housing Action Plan.
The rezoning would allow more around 2400 residential units to be built on 160 hectares of greenfield land between Shotover Bridge and Lake Hayes.
The application has been fast-tracked by Central Government and is the latest step in the long-running Te Pūtahi Ladies Mile masterplan process.
QLDC Planning Policy Manager Alyson Hutton says she can't confirm yet the number of submissions, as staffers have to review the, and check for duplicates and errors.
Ladies Mile masterplan has proved contentious in the past, with objections from the community due to the potential for traffic gridlock, especially at rush hour.
Hutton says the council's had submissions from "a mix of landowners and members of the public" before Friday's deadline.
"Ladies Mile is a strategic area for projected future growth within the Whakatipu basin, and it’s good to see that our community has engaged in this process.
"Once we’ve collated them, the next stage in the process is for Council to notify the summary of decisions requested by 20 July. Individual submissions will also be publicly available by this date. Further submissions will then be required to be made within 10 working days."
Feedback on the draft Joint Housing Action Plan, meanwhile, closed on Thursday.
A collaboration with Kāinga Ora, Te Tūāpapa Kura Kāinga – Ministry of Housing and Urban Development - and Queenstown Lakes Community Housing Trust, it proposes nine solutions to tackle Queenstown Lakes' housing needs.
Meanwhile, the proposal to seal the Frankton track appears to have generated a good deal of interest from the community. QLDC received around 1200 responses during the consultation, which closed last month.
"Whilst we’re happy with this number and it’s far more than we received to a question posed as part of the active travel public consultation in 2021, we do note that more than half appear to have come in before the different trial surfaces were laid down (so people could compare them)," QLDC spokesman Sam White says.
The cost of applying different temporary surfaces was $5,474 plus GST.
"We thank everyone who took the time to provide feedback and look forward to sharing more details later this month."
The 2021 consultation received 128 replies, with roughly a third supporting sealing the track, a third opposing it, and a third neutral.
